Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.
100 million dollars – that’s what they spent on the Watchmen film which nearly didn’t come out because of the lawsuit, that’s what they spent on The League […]
We had one particularly dense Hollywood producer say, ‘You don’t even have to do the book, just stick your name on this idea and I’ll make the film […]
There is more integrity in comics. It sounds simplistic, but I believe there is a formula that you can apply to almost any work of modern culture… The […]
The main reason why comics can’t work as films is largely because everybody who is ultimately in control of the film industry is an accountant. These people may […]
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen film cost 100 million because Sean Connery wanted 17 million of that – and a bigger explosion that the one he’d had in […]
It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. […]
There was a clause that essentially said that, if in the future, there were any documents or contracts that I refused to sign, DC was entitled to appoint […]
There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, […]
I have largely, completely given up on the comics industry. I really don’t believe it is going to do anything to address the modern world.
There hasn’t been a more sophisticated comic released in the 25 years since, which I find profoundly depressing, because [Watchmen] was intended to be something that expanded the […]
Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I’ve tried to say, ‘Look, we are all crappy superheroes,’ because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that […]
Comics are more energetic, more vital than novels. They are these seductive visual tracts, they are fast.
I’m completely happy and confident about the comics medium because even if, as I hope, the comics industry collapses tomorrow, then there’ll still be people who have access […]